India, April 20 -- While the recent move to open up forest plantations to private participation has triggered debate, it also ...

Biodiversity loss is emerging as a systemic economic risk, affecting supply chains, financial stability and long-term growth across sectors, argues a new assessment from the Intergovernmental Platform ...

Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and ...

It’s a great paradox that the sector that relies the most on biodiversity, agriculture, is also the greatest threat to the world’s most fragile ecosystems. The question isn’t how to just minimize the ...

Vora is a practicing physician, senior adviser for One Health at Conservation International, and executive director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Coalition. Walzer is a wildlife ...

The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), in collaboration with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), has developed a comprehensive roadmap toward an integrated biological and ...

Tulane University has a new caretaker of one of its most unusual treasures — millions of fish preserved in jars. Brian Sidlauskas, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, officially became ...

Students inspect a skunk from the the Collection of Mammals in the Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections facility. The Collection of Mammals includes around 69,000 specimens representing ...

ABSTRACT: Mountains are home to 50% of global biodiversity hotspots and support nearly a quarter of the world’s forests and terrestrial biological diversity. This study aims to evaluate the floristic ...